06-01-2004 22:48									#1
	Cash Strapped Deutche builds a Frog Tunnel Inflate your Upload Space

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/scienc...reut/index.html

At first i thought it was like a tunnel to France but then further reading it is an actual frog tunnel.



Ok so whats up with this?

if the Germans have so many frogs then this will help weed them out.

Is this a waste of cash?

Oh and by the way, as a former U S Army member stationed in the 1970's I happen to love Germany plus have ancestry ties

But for real, is this necessary?

Let me know

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	06-01-2004 22:58									#2
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I think it is rather silly. They should spend that money to help HUMAN BEINGS, instead of some stupid animal.

	06-01-2004 23:01									#3
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Davis, CA has a frog tunnel too!!! They spent $14,000 of public money on it... stupid hippies

	06-01-2004 23:02									#4
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Dont you see the symbol of the Germano-French friendship ? Is it not worth 200 000€ ?

	06-01-2004 23:09									#5
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Thousands of frog guts on a rainy road is a pretty significant safety hazard, and it costs money in perpetuity to scrape that stuff off and haul it away (you don't want to be downwind if it gets left in piles on the side of the road. )

Also, the money spent is really (at least if it was done according to typical US public agency procedures) part of the construction funds for the related diplomatic facility that was built nearby - part of the permit conditions for encroaching on a previously designated wildlife reserve and constructing roads, buildings, etc. through it.

Frogs aren't especially smart animals, but they're damned useful in their position in the food chain - keeping larger fish supplied with food and maintaining the entire piscine ecosystem and food chain for that body of water and any others for which it's a source. Not to mention that little frogs become big frogs by eating thousands of bugs, including nasty disease carrying things like flies and mosquitos. The alternative with lots of dead frogs is that the predators of those insects become a food source for an even higher population of pests.

	06-01-2004 23:11									#6
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Oh sure, MtG, just beat them over the head with facts and logic.

	06-01-2004 23:12									#7
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(Simpsons paraphrase..)

Non! Nous ne ressemblons pas à de grenouille! (a-hon hon hon..)

(lancer le bombe neutron)

EDIT: obviously I don't know the French word for 'launch'.

	06-01-2004 23:18									#8
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I think more troll bridges should be built.

Might clean up apolyton a bit.

	06-01-2004 23:24									#9
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Oh sure, MtG, just beat them over the head with facts and logic.

Too many environmentalist frootloops do a piss-poor job of explaining stuff like this in a pragmatic context, because they're all wrapped up in their tree-hugger world to understand that most people won't give a **** unless you give them some actual practical reasons for doing so.

	07-01-2004 00:03									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Osweld I think more troll bridges should be built. Might clean up apolyton a bit.

Well, more Frog Stew equals Less Wabbit Stew!!

.as for Troll Bridges, good idea!

This way we wont get splattered!!
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	07-01-2004 00:09									#11
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I'm really beginning to like Grandpa Troll.

	07-01-2004 00:47									#12
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Who's gonna explain to the frogs that they have to use the tunnel rather than just cross the road?

	07-01-2004 01:13									#13
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They figure that out pretty well - most road shoulders are sloped and have either plants or gravel or what-not, that isn't particularly friendly to frog-bellies. The tunnels will be cooler and moister, and a better conduit for the smells of the pond on the other side, so the little froggies are naturally drawn to them. Plus frogs are acutely aware that they don't have good working relationships with larger birds, so they prefer to move in sheltered areas if they have a choice about it.

	07-01-2004 01:19									#14
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quote: Who's gonna explain to the frogs that they have to use the tunnel rather than just cross the road?

It's not to hard! You just go straight through Toad Hollow and follow the signs

	07-01-2004 01:22									#15
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i once sent a frog to the moon on a baloon...

	07-01-2004 02:12									#16
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Wonder if he made it...

	07-01-2004 02:17									#17
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Now I miss the Brain. And it's G-pa Troll's fault.

	07-01-2004 06:10									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Theben Now I miss the Brain. And it's G-pa Troll's fault.

Here take his..HE WANTS you to have one!!

..and Che..I am pretty harmless, I kinda grow on a person like a Barnacle to a sunken ships Hull..or Moss on the underside of a rock..

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	07-01-2004 06:15									#19
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I like frogs. This tunnel makes a lot of sense.

	08-01-2004 07:13									#20
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we are pretty thrifty...their tunnel to the Brits surely was way more expensive.